My wife and I sent our $1200.00 check to the IRS on April 1st. My bank records show that they cashed that check on April 7th. On May 3rd we received a notice from the IRS that we had not paid our taxes and that we owed, after penalties and interest, $1300.00 (I’m rounding up a few dollars).
After being on hold for 30 minutes this morning, I did finally talk to someone (she was very helpful actually) and found out that they had somehow misapplied the payment to 2008 (??!!), instead of applying it to 2007. What the fuck? And whether I agree with the “justification” for it or not, we were looking forward to our economic stimulus check, which won’t be sent out now for another 3 or 4 weeks. Cock-fucking-sucker.